The Last Airbender was plagued with studio interference. Even a 5 second search on Wikipedia will tell you. There was even a cut of the film that was well over 3 hours, yet it was reduced to 90 minutes to sell more showtimes. This is true. What you saw in theaters was not what Night intended. I don't consider Last Airbender to be a "true" notch on Night's belt.

For me, the movies in question are Lady in the Water and The Happening, and I stand by the opinion that both are horribly misunderstood. In particular the former, which was a damn bedtime story written for his kids. Cut the man some slack. It was his vision, his story, his film, and it was not based on any video game, cartoon, comic book, or theme park ride. It was original and he got to do what he wanted to do. Isn't that what we're demanding more of in Hollywood? Artistic integrity and originality?

I know I'm annoying, but I'll defend this man to the ends of the earth.

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I don't like how USA portray Godzilla. Godzilla is a good man and kind man. Why can't Americans see this?

Hey man! It's the future! Times have changed... as have their accents apparently.

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"He’s much more of a working class superhero, which is why we ended the whole book with the image of a laboring Superman. He’s Everyman operating on a sci–fi Paul Bunyan scale." - Grant Morrison

Honestly... this is going to be kind of awesome. I'm not sure how that got missed. Shayamalan's problem is that he thinks he's smarter than he actually is, that these twists are golden... well, with Will Smith undoubtedly producing, they got the twist out of the way in the trailer first thing. Boom. Now all that is left is some action and a strong father son bond. These are not things that will be difficult for this movie.

The trailer looks golden to me. It should be worth the ticket price just for the spectacle.

__________________I was at some diplomatic party once. Got to talking to this princess who told me that when it came to Superman, I was missing the point. She told me, "His real strength lay in his generous spirit and sense of what's fair." - King Faraday
"He’s much more of a working class superhero, which is why we ended the whole book with the image of a laboring Superman. He’s Everyman operating on a sci–fi Paul Bunyan scale." - Grant Morrison

__________________I was at some diplomatic party once. Got to talking to this princess who told me that when it came to Superman, I was missing the point. She told me, "His real strength lay in his generous spirit and sense of what's fair." - King Faraday
"He’s much more of a working class superhero, which is why we ended the whole book with the image of a laboring Superman. He’s Everyman operating on a sci–fi Paul Bunyan scale." - Grant Morrison

__________________I was at some diplomatic party once. Got to talking to this princess who told me that when it came to Superman, I was missing the point. She told me, "His real strength lay in his generous spirit and sense of what's fair." - King Faraday
"He’s much more of a working class superhero, which is why we ended the whole book with the image of a laboring Superman. He’s Everyman operating on a sci–fi Paul Bunyan scale." - Grant Morrison

The first shot of the trailer is so great. In that I saw faint glimpses of the directing brilliance of Night's first two films. Even in his bad and terrible films, he can frame and compose a shot like almost no other. He reminds me of Hitchcock in his sheer mastery of the camera. Alas, the world of movies is a poorer place that we have the misfortune of seeing his immense talent being ill used and wasted like this. Let us all hope this film is a bounce back for him.

We need to start a thread focusing on the greatest/worst movie posters featuring the camera poised behind the hero looking at something cool.

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Who the **** makes a movie and while planning it is like, "you know what this needs...is some Greg Kinnear."

The Last Airbender was plagued with studio interference. Even a 5 second search on Wikipedia will tell you. There was even a cut of the film that was well over 3 hours, yet it was reduced to 90 minutes to sell more showtimes. This is true. What you saw in theaters was not what Night intended. I don't consider Last Airbender to be a "true" notch on Night's belt.

For me, the movies in question are Lady in the Water and The Happening, and I stand by the opinion that both are horribly misunderstood. In particular the former, which was a damn bedtime story written for his kids. Cut the man some slack. It was his vision, his story, his film, and it was not based on any video game, cartoon, comic book, or theme park ride. It was original and he got to do what he wanted to do. Isn't that what we're demanding more of in Hollywood? Artistic integrity and originality?

I know I'm annoying, but I'll defend this man to the ends of the earth.

HA!

I'd counter all of this, but considering who's posting this saying all of this is all the defense I need.

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"You can leave a penny, you can't take a penny. You can leave a penny anytime. You have to spend $10 to take a penny. Store policy."
"Since when has this been store policy?"
"Uh, since my boss made up the policy. You gonna pay? You're holding up my line of one other person. You can't afford your milk, step aside. What, daddy didn't give you enough milk money? Little baby gonna cry about it? Just step aside."And that is how Uncle Ben dies.

I actually didn't like the teaser for TLA over time. It was due to the bending, which hinted at how wrong they were going to do it.

__________________I was at some diplomatic party once. Got to talking to this princess who told me that when it came to Superman, I was missing the point. She told me, "His real strength lay in his generous spirit and sense of what's fair." - King Faraday
"He’s much more of a working class superhero, which is why we ended the whole book with the image of a laboring Superman. He’s Everyman operating on a sci–fi Paul Bunyan scale." - Grant Morrison

__________________I was at some diplomatic party once. Got to talking to this princess who told me that when it came to Superman, I was missing the point. She told me, "His real strength lay in his generous spirit and sense of what's fair." - King Faraday
"He’s much more of a working class superhero, which is why we ended the whole book with the image of a laboring Superman. He’s Everyman operating on a sci–fi Paul Bunyan scale." - Grant Morrison